Project WoodChuck: The dual system watercooled cabinet

[Flatoutnos]

THIS IS NO LONGER A DUAL SYSTEM. IT IS NOW A TRIPLE SYSTEM.

 

This is a Triple system that will feature one whole custom water cooling loop. The case is a custom wood cabinet that I am building to house everything. The color scheme is black/white/green.

 

Specs:

 

System 1:

5820k

x99s sli plus

GTX 980

16gb Crucial RAM

v750 PSU

3tb hdd

wd blue 1tb hdd

toshiba 1tb hdd

240gb pny ssd

128 crucial m.2 ssd

 

system 2:

4790k

Asus Z97-A 

Corsair cx 750m

GTX 660

16GB PNY RAM

2tb hdd

 

system 3:

4460

GIGABYTE GA-H81M-DS2V

8GB Samsung RAM

Ceton Infinitv 4

300w psu

750gb HDD

 

Water Cooling:

EKWB for one CPU and the GTX 980

XSPC CPU block for h81 and z97

Magicool 240mm rad

'99 Honda Civic rad

Koolance PMP 450 pump (2)

PrimoChill rigid tubing

Monsoon fittings

 

 

Cabinet:

Knotty Pine wood

plexiglass

aluminum

 

Building the cabinet.

 

sanding/painting the legs

 

Adding the legs and a drawer to the cabinet

 

Cutting holes for plexi, rads, fans, optical drives, etc.

 

Painting the psu, waterblocks, rads, etc

 

Still have a lot to do, more to come soon. 

[ShadowCaptain]

Still have a lot to do, more to come soon. 

 

Im totally following this

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Haha that's a neat idea!

I really want to do some sort of weird build like this, I just don't have the money.

Goodluck!

[alby800]

Awesome, subbed

[whipcreambeast]

Looks sweet, can't wait to see it finished!!

[TheHolyCawCaw]

Yeah niceeee

[-TesseracT-]

Holy shit

[wolfgang]

interested to see how this turns out.

[ThesaurusLive]

WC with a car rad doesn't get any cooler then dat  B)

[techswede]

How much wood can it chuck?

 

Looks really nice so far^^ 

It'll be interesting to see what kind of cooling performace you get with a car radiator

[Nup]

Project and a half, looks great, followed  

[FloRolf]

It looks like you are building a wooden TX10

but yours could hold a mini fridge and that would be AWESOME.

[Chiobe]

'99 Honda Civic rad

You mean you will use an actual car radiator?

[Flatoutnos]

  

You mean you will use an actual car radiator?

Yes. And it actually looks like that too.

[ForsakenLive]

  

Yes. And it actually looks like that too.

 

Dude! I want details! And more content I've been with the car radiator idea stuck in my head for a while. I know it has been done plenty of times, if any, common in the old watercooling days, people used components and hardware from all categories to make a loop on their PCs.

But now the scene has changed a lot; and while I'm sure the car rad has certainly the capability of transferring massive amounts of heat; it also has drawbacks. How's the resistance going to be for a PC pump? Will a slow fan have enough pressure to move air through? and most importantly, are there any car rads with copper or brass on them? Or are we stuck with pure aluminum internal pipes? How can you manage corrosion on that setup?

[Flatoutnos]

Dude! I want details! And more content I've been with the car radiator idea stuck in my head for a while. I know it has been done plenty of times, if any, common in the old watercooling days, people used components and hardware from all categories to make a loop on their PCs.

But now the scene has changed a lot; and while I'm sure the car rad has certainly the capability of transferring massive amounts of heat; it also has drawbacks. How's the resistance going to be for a PC pump? Will a slow fan have enough pressure to move air through? and most importantly, are there any car rads with copper or brass on them? Or are we stuck with pure aluminum internal pipes? How can you manage corrosion on that setup?

So I actually did this before and you can get ones with copper or brass inside but they have plastic tanks so I chose the all aluminum one that way I could modify the nipples for 1/2 tubing. As far as the corrosion issue I will add an anti corrosion additive to help prevent corrosion.

[ForsakenLive]

So I actually did this before and you can get ones with copper or brass inside but they have plastic tanks so I chose the all aluminum one that way I could modify the nipples for 1/2 tubing. As far as the corrosion issue I will add an anti corrosion additive to help prevent corrosion.

I'm following to see how it turns out

In my region car rads are so much cheaper than PC rads, even new ones. If this works I can manage the project

[Flatoutnos]

Small update:

I had some free time so I cut the floors. Still have to fit them properly but here is what it looks like as of now.

[Flatoutnos]

Update:

 

So I cut out and fit both floors along with the front power button and usb ports.

 

I cut out the back panel so I have access to cables and the back of the motherboard.

 

I attached the motherboard tray so I can start adding in some of my components soon.

 

I got my motherboard back from Asus 

 

Then I painted all the heatsinks and RAM to match my color scheme 

 

I changed some of the hardware in the second pc. I changed the motherboard to a gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2V that way I could fit in a GTX 660 that I found for a good price.

 

Tomorrow I will be sanding the wood down and cutting some areas so the power supply can fit along with some fans.

[robobenklein]

This is exactly the kind of stuff that I want to be able to do, but only having rack-mount servers and a laptop doesn't make it easy...
 
How does one exactly make rack mount servers and a laptop with such cool?
It's not like either of them can have their insides exposed like you can with a PC...

[Flatoutnos]

Update:

 

I have added the rads in, put the motherboard tray in, along with some fans. These pics are actually a week old so a lot has changed since then. I will try to update again soon with more up to date pics. Some things that have changed include the addition to a third system, being x99 with a 5820k.